diff --git a/t/t2004-hydra.t b/t/t2004-hydra.t
index b94bdefa4366..6f5d8dd1d513 100755
--- a/t/t2004-hydra.t
+++ b/t/t2004-hydra.t
@@ -20,19 +20,19 @@ test_expect_success 'Hydra runs hello world' '
 count_uniq_lines() { sort $1 | uniq | wc -l; }
 
 test_expect_success 'Hydra sets PMI_FD to unique value' '
-	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 printenv PMI_FD > out &&
+	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 -outfile out printenv PMI_FD &&
 	test_debug "cat out" &&
 	test $(count_uniq_lines out) -eq 4
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'Hydra sets PMI_RANK to unique value' '
-	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 printenv PMI_RANK > out2 &&
+	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 -outfile out2 printenv PMI_RANK &&
 	test_debug "cat out2" &&
 	test $(count_uniq_lines out2) -eq 4
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'Hydra sets PMI_SIZE to uniform value' '
-	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 printenv PMI_SIZE > out3 &&
+	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 -outfile out3 printenv PMI_SIZE &&
 	test_debug "cat out3" &&
 	test $(count_uniq_lines out3) -eq 1
 '
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ test_expect_success 'Flux libpmi-client wire protocol works with Hydra' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'Hydra can launch Flux' '
-	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 flux start \
-		flux comms info >flux_out &&
+	mpiexec.hydra -launcher fork -n 4 -outfile flux_out flux start \
+		flux comms info &&
 	test_debug "cat flux_out" &&
 	grep size=4 flux_out
 '